Cloud Engineer-API -Global Industrial

The API Cloud Engineer III designs, implements, and operates secure, scalable API platforms across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. This role provides hands-on engineering expertise for Apigee and Azure API Management, enabling consistent API governance, reusable integration patterns, developer self-service, and reliable connectivity between cloud, on-premises, partner, and software-as-a-service environments. The engineer owns solutions across the API lifecycle—from design and automated delivery through security, observability, optimization, and production support—while helping application teams adopt enterprise standards.

• Multi-Cloud API Engineering:
  Design, build, configure, and support API proxies, products, policies, gateways, and reusable components in Apigee and Azure API Management.
• API Architecture & Governance:
  Establish consistent RESTful design standards, versioning practices, lifecycle controls, naming conventions, and deployment patterns across GCP and Azure.
• Security & Compliance:
  Implement OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, mutual TLS, certificates, secrets, threat protection, quotas, and rate limiting in alignment with enterprise security requirements.
• Automation & Platform Delivery:
  Develop CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, or Jenkins to deliver repeatable API platform and configuration changes.
• Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Manage API catalogs, developer portals, documentation, subscriptions, credentials, and onboarding workflows that enable secure consumer self-service.
• Reliability & Observability:
  Monitor availability, traffic, latency, errors, capacity, and security events; build dashboards and alerts; troubleshoot incidents; and improve service-level objectives across both clouds.
• Connectivity & Integration:
  Engineer secure connectivity to cloud, on-premises, partner, and SaaS backends using private networking, load balancing, DNS, certificates, and identity services.
• Technical Leadership:
  Partner with application, security, network, platform, and architecture teams to define API contracts, review designs, document standards, mentor engineers, and drive platform adoption.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• Core
  
  Experience:
  
  5+ years of cloud, integration, or API engineering experience, including production ownership of enterprise API gateway or management platforms.
• Multi-Cloud Platforms:
  Hands‑on experience with both GCP and Azure, including Apigee and Azure API Management; experience translating common governance and security requirements into platform‑specific implementations.
• API Lifecycle:
  Experience designing APIs with OpenAPI, publishing products and documentation, managing consumer access, and supporting versioning, deprecation, analytics, and production operations.
• Engineering Automation:
  Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and automated delivery using Terraform or equivalent tooling, source control, testing, and CI/CD platforms.
• Modern Architecture:
  Experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, event‑driven integration, private connectivity, and hybrid or multi‑cloud architecture patterns.

• API Standards:
  Advanced knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI Specification, contract‑first development, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Apigee:
  Strong knowledge of Apigee X proxy development, policies, shared flows, products, environments, analytics, developer portals, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Azure API Management:
  Strong knowledge of APIM gateways, policies, products, subscriptions, revisions,…